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Here we are, out in the middle of the African bush. No hotels. No showers. No time. Meredith and Gretchen have barely staved off elimination for three straight episodes. They have no changes of clothes. No toiletries. They are 69 and 66, respectively. So ....

What do you suppose that the two of them smell like right now? Goats? A nursing home? A couple of street bums, exuding all the stale foul odors that can soak in when you're outside? Or, worst of all, do you suppose they smell like the street stench of urban India?

Hey, maybe that's why they get the "standing O" when they participate in the "bikeshaw" race in India -- they smell like they belong!

Just to remind -- the origin of the term "smell-o-vision" predates SCTV and Queen Latifa.There was an old Bugs Bunny cartoon, circa 1950; while chasing that wasskley wabbit, Elmer ends up sleeping Rip Van Winkle-esque under a tree and awakens 100 years later. He sees a newspaper with the headline Smell-o-vision replaces Television!Just a brief Bugs history lesson. Class dismissed, doc.

M/G are the extreme, but the other racers won't be smelling that great either considering that they can only pack a limited number of clothing in their packs. How many times are we going to see Kelly in that unflattering halter top? Anyway, could there be laundry facilities at the pit stops (except the desert of course). What else are you going to do for 12 hours? And what about the really messy stunts? Would you really want to stuff a mud-caked shirt into a backpack? It would seem to me that the racers' clothing is in pretty pristine condition considering.

All old people smell like pee. It's in the AARP contract--you have to smell like pee to get the discounts.

Meredith probably dribbles a lot, and Gretchen can't shower her privates unless there are those grippy-bars built into the wall -- what if she falls? I'm guessing she goes unwashed most all the time. Jeez--she's even starting to get permanent dirt-scab-thingies on her face.

Where's a Survivor-style swim challenge when you need one? Diving for clues in a submerged trunk would clean the oldies up nicely, especially if someone accidently dumped too much chlorine into the pool.

Wow - Oh so similar to my "What does Scott smell like" post on the American Idol individual forum. I'm glad to see the "scent" factor making its way into El Basho Forumo's.

Hmm...Gretchen and Merideth. First off, it CAN'T be pretty. The salt pan prior to M and D arriving was full of life. It was actually a green fertile valley playing host to over 20 endangered species and plants that held the cure for both cancer and flesh eating bacterias.

Once M/G came within 500 nautical miles of this valley, everything withered away. Green became brown, animals became bones, and even the walls that the beds were in melted away.

That's a funk.The scent could be defined as: 90 day old kimchee with a dash of dirty sock, 4 cups of Scott Savol sweat, the breath of a sex perv with a dung eating fetish, and the town of Trona, California. Heat to 450F, complain, and serve M and G on a stick.

Actually, I think you've just hit the nail on the head... The other contestants' smells are like a cattle prod to get Rob to finish his tasks so quickly so he could get the hell away from them and consistently finish first instead of being downwind from another team's ass.

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